| Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains Contributor(s): Keohane, Robert (Editor), Ostrom, Elinor (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803979622 ISBN-13: 9780803979628 Publisher: Sage Publications UK OUR PRICE: $181.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 333.7 |
| LCCN: 94068900 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.4 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies to enforce agreements they make to cooperate with one another. In some small-scale settings, participants may be just as helpless in calling on distant public officials to monitor and enforce their agreements. Scholars have independently discovered self-organizing regimes which rely on implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and procedures rather than the command and control of a central authority. The contributors discuss the possibilities and |
Contributor Bio(s): Ostrom, Elinor: - Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001; is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and a recipient of the Frank E. Seidman Prize in Political Economy and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. Her books include Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action; Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (with Roy Gardner and James Walker); and Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains (with Robert Keohane). |